GENERAL

Join us for six days dedicated to cutting-edge nanotechnology. Three stand-alone, complimentary sessions  Vision, Applications & Policy, and Research  are designed to give both veterans and newcomers a thorough understanding of the most important goals for nanotech, the Foresight Nanotechnology Challenges:

Meeting global energy needs with clean solutions

Providing abundant clean water globally

Increasing the health and longevity of human life

Maximizing the productivity of agriculture

Making powerful information technology available everywhere

Enabling the development of space

Conference attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the potential of nanotechnology, understand critical applications and policy opportunities, and explore the most advanced technical research.

VISION

Saturday, October 22 and Sunday, October 23

The Foresight Vision Weekend is THE place where ideas generated today lead to future realities tomorrow. This annual event offers a rare opportunity to hear world-class speakers discuss the future of nanotechnology candidly and off-the-record. Opening with a reception on Saturday night, the brainstorming continues all day Sunday. Bring your own version of nanotechnology's future and join this mixture of executives, engineers, researchers, investors, writers, artists, and futurists. Attendance is exclusive to Foresight participating members. We encourage individuals interested in how nanotechnology will change the world to become a member and share their voice. Contact Foresight at foresight@foresight.org about becoming a member or join online here.

APPLICATION and POLICY

Monday, October 24 and Tuesday, October 25

Focuses on critical applications that address the Foresight Nanotechnology Challenges and serve as the stepping-stones toward advanced nanotechnology, along with current public policies and strategies that need to be adopted to ensure that the nanotechnology revolution will unfold for the benefit of all. Speakers will address current applications and coming prospects in the following areas: energy, water purification, health and longevity, agriculture, information technology, and space development. Policy topics include building public trust, aiding the poor, intellectual property regimes, evaluating government nanotech initiatives, and environmental, health, and safety issues.

These sessions are tailored for: executives, investors, planners, policy professionals, public interest and government representatives, professional/trade association representatives, economic development officers, researchers, technologists, and the general public.

RESEARCH

The Foresight Nanotech Institute's first Conference on Nanotechnology, which pre-dated the National Nanotechnology Initiative by a decade, was the first comprehensive conference on the topic of nanotechology. Foresight-sponsored events continue to be the premiere venue for discussing new and innovative multidisciplinary research in nanotechnology. This meeting attracts researchers from academic, government, and corporate laboratories worldwide, and includes papers from the electronics, medical, computing, physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology communities. Foresight's 13th Conference will continue this level of excellence by providing a forum in which leaders from all disciplines delving into science and technology at the nanoscale can present and discuss their most recent results and ideas.

Researchers, technologists, and others who want to review the cutting edge of nanotechnology are encouraged to attend.